- Aw, come on!
Oh yeah. There it is. There it is!
No!
Last hit! Last hit!
Yeah!
Free ball!
I'm free-ballin'!
Hoo!
That was intense. You guys see that?
Of course you did,
thanks to our sponsor for today's video, Corsair.
Corsair sent over all the gear we need
to create and capture sick gameplay montages like that one.
And, like, crazy thing,
they have gone from just system memory
to the point where you can build
almost an entire gaming setup
with nothing but Corsair products.
So why don't we give it a shot?
(upbeat music)
At the heart of almost any sick gaming and streaming rig
is an AMD Ryzen processor,
and we went with the Ryzen 7 3700X,
mostly because the Ryzen 5000 series isn't out yet.
It's roughly $300,
features eight cores and 16 threads,
and at this price is pretty much the best bang for the buck
when it comes to a multitasking CPU.
In order to avoid an awkward situation
where we do a build video
and then two weeks later it's irrelevant,
we chose the ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII.
It runs an X570 chipset,
allowing you to easily upgrade
to the new Ryzen 5000 series CPUs once they land.
It's also got solid VRMs if you're into overclocking.
AMD has said that Ryzen 5000
should be an overclocking beast.
11 USB Type-A ports, onboard WiFi 6 and Bluetooth,
and yeah, it's expensive at $380,
but it's about as feature-rich as it gets.
For system memory, naturally we've gone Corsair,
and naturally we've gone for RGB lighting.
This is their Vengeance RGB,
and we've got a 32-gig kit here
clocked at 3333 megahertz, CL 16.
At 150 bucks, this is a pretty darn good bang for the buck
in terms of performance today
and probably not needing to upgrade for quite some time.
What's a little dumb is having to remove
this grill from the fan
in order to get at the M.2 slot,
but what's not dumb is going with
a Corsair MP600 PCI Express Gen 4 SSD.
It's rated for read speeds of almost 5 gigabytes per second,
and at $180 for a very fast boot drive,
it's pretty darn reasonable.
It actually comes with a cooler, but as you can see,
we stripped it off because our intention
was to mount it under the spreader
that's built into our motherboard, so.
For our case, we've gone practical today here,
ladies and gentlemen.
This is the Corsair 275 Airflow,
and they're really taking the airflow thing seriously.
Yes, they do have kinda like a stylistic front panel
that really doesn't have a lotta gaps for airflow in it,
but then, bam!
Not only do they have these gaps in the side,
they actually went and popped it off the rest of the case,
so you've got almost unimpeded access
to fresh airflow from the sides.
At least in theory. We'll see how it goes.
It's also got a tempered glass side panel,
magnetic fan filter doodad up here,
and, of course, cable management up the wazoo,
with room behind the motherboard tray
for most of your cables,
and then a basement down in the bottom to cram all the ones
that you couldn't figure out how to hide back there.
Of course, managing our unnecessary cables
won't be a problem with our modular
Corsair RM750x power supply.
Corsair was one of the first
to jump into the modular power supply game,
and they've got it pretty much
down to a science at this point.
So we'll pop this into the bottom.
This case has nice, tall feet,
so we're not gonna worry about having our fan down
and it getting suffocated or anything like that.
Screw it in from the back
and go ahead and add our 24-pin connector,
our eight-pin connector for the CPU,
our other, more different eight-pin connector
for the graphics card,
and then we're also gonna need
a SATA cable to power some of our other peripherals.
Oh. What the deuce?
'Kay, got it figured out. It's just this motherboard.
The plate that covers the fan here
also covers the little screw holes,
so I guess I'll start with some of the other ones first.
It's got a little nubbin that's holding it in place.
This is a feature I really like of Corsair's cases.
This was also a hilarious innovation
the first time I saw it:
a box for the accessories that's shaped like a hard drive
with hard drive holes that comes in the hard drive tray.
Neat.
Our fan upgrade, not exactly a practical one,
but there's no doubt that Corsair's ML120 Pro RGB fans,
with their magnetic levitation bearings
and, of course, RGB lighting,
both perform great and look fantastic.
So we're going to hook them all up
to a Commander Pro RGB and fan controller
that I'm gonna just bury in the basement
and not bother to cable manage,
because cable managing RGB stuff is a nightmare.
Look at it all. Two wires per fan!
Even though some elements of this rig
are more bang for the buck,
our cooling configuration is gonna be freakin' awesome,
with three intakes at the front
and then three exhausts in the top and the back.
Now, these two I can't put in yet
because I need to mount them to...
(fan clatters)
To my H100i RGB Pro XT liquid cooler first.
Um, yeah.
Main features of this puppy:
RGB lighting and,
well, it's an AIO liquid cooler.
It'll keep that CPU nice and cool.
This is the key moment in radiator mounting,
when you either knock everything down
or you get the whole thing lined up in one go.
So I had mounted the fans with the long radiator screws,
look a little somethin' like that,
had 'em just stacked there,
and now I'm gonna try and put 'em
all the way through to the rad
and get the whole thing secured.
Did I get it? Oh, I got two.
That's most of the battle. Nice.
That's a quick AIO mount right there.
Thermal paste is pre-applied and, uh,
(clears throat) I cheated and used the clip mount
instead of the one that takes longer,
so we're just gonna pop that on there.
I mean, ah, realistically, who cares?
But what are we talkin', maybe one degree
with the different mounting pressure?
Two?
Is this gonna have enough room for the GPU?
Yeah, should be fine, right?
Oh god, this is really tight. Uh...
Okay, we're running our eight-pin
for the CPU power connector up here,
and this is gonna be a real tight fit,
ladies and gentlemen.
There we go.
That extra four-pin next to it,
we only really need that
if we're getting into extreme overclocking
or something like that, and we won't be.
We're also gonna plug in our 24-pin at this time
after running it through the cable management grommet here,
giving us a nice, clean look.
This is all fan and RGB connectors.
That's why the Commander Pro comes in real handy.
'Kay, that's gonna go there,
that hangs off there,
and we plug all our fans into that.
All right, which way do you guys wanna go?
One, two, three, four, five, six?
Or wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong?
- Wrong. - Perfect.
We're not gonna do that.
As much as fan and RGB wiring is annoying though,
this really does make it quite a lot less painful,
having it all go to one place.
So I'm just gonna tuck this down here
and then tuck these over here,
and the cable management shouldn't look too bad.
Front panel audio goes right here.
I just love this pass-through here.
I hate it when cases don't have that.
This is really annoying.
This USB port doesn't quite line up
with where it would need to be
to go straight through the cable management hole,
so we're stuck kind of a bit of an awkward thing there.
But what I'm kinda hoping is that
when we bring the GPU cable through,
it'll kinda hide that behind the GPU
and the power cables.
The connectors for the front power and buttons
are an example of why I do like to have
a cable management hole kinda right here or right here,
but you can see we can reuse the one
that can be used for GPU cables as well,
if you want to bring them up from the bottom,
so that works out pretty good.
Actually, should we bring the GPU cables up from the bottom?
What do you think? This location versus this one?
What do you wanna see? - I like the side. The side.
- You like the side? 'Kay.
I like it 'cause it can help with GPU sag a little bit
if you bring it over top.
That's the main reason. It's not for aesthetics.
On that note, it's finally time to put the graphics card in.
So we're gonna pull out these two PCI covers.
Wow, that's a strong magnet.
'Kay. (laughs)
And...
Ooh, we're moving those tubes over a little. (grunts)
Let's see here.
Does that fit all right?
Hey, they can stop making these runs
between the two connectors so long,
'cause no one's gonna run dual GPUs anymore.
Is that good enough?
- [David] Yeah.
- All right.
Look, okay, for a system with RGB all over,
this is not bad.
Just gotta use the old trick.
Came together pretty nicely, didn't it?
Not bad.
Still gotta fire it up and make sure everything works,
but so far, not bad.
Now it's time for phase two of the build:
the peripherals.
If you told me Corsair was gonna have everything
but the CPU, GPU and motherboard under their umbrella,
even all the peripherals,
just a few years ago, I'd have been like, "Really?
Actually, yeah, they seem to be on the way
towards world domination, that makes sense."
That's probably what I would've said. (laughs)
One of the big highlights today is,
of course, the K100 RGB.
It features Corsairs iconic all-aluminum construction
and the new iCUE wheel.
So this thing's super cool.
You can use it to zoom or scroll between Alt-Tabs,
and actually, it's got an SDK,
so the potential's kinda limitless.
That's pretty neat.
It's got a wraparound RGB lighting
that we'll see in a moment here,
4,000-hertz polling rate, which is apparently
thanks to using a USB 2 data path instead of USB 1.1,
and this particular one is equipped
with Cherry MX Speed switches,
although there is a different version
using Corsair's OPX switches that are optically triggered.
It's got Corsair's traditional pretty solid build quality.
That's lookin' real fine, actually.
But a price to match at over $200.
But hey, it's got the cable management for you headset wire.
Ooh, David, I missed the best part.
Look at this wrist wrest. It's so plushy.
Also, does it mount magnetically?
It does!
Ooh.
Now I'm feelin' fancy. I'm a fancy gamer.
For our mouse, we're using a Dark Core RGB Pro.
We actually managed to forget to grab a Corsair mousepad,
so I guess what we're gonna find out
is how well it tracks on a random
vinyl sticker surface here.
Ooh, iCUE Nexus, their companion touchscreen.
We were supposed to do a ShortCircuit
unboxing of this thing.
I saw this and it looked super cool,
but I never got around to it.
So I guess we're gonna find out how it works here.
This is official Corsair's most hilarious product.
They've dropped all pretense.
This is the Corsair RGB RGB stick.
It just sits on your desk and is RGB.
They're not even pretending
that it is gonna have some other function,
like being a mouse that's also RGB
or a case that also has RGB.
This is just RGB.
Oh, wait. No, wait.
There's a headphone stand doohickey you can attach to it,
but that's optional.
There we go.
How funny is it that they intentionally
hung the headphones off the back
so that it wouldn't get in the way of the RGB,
even though that's less ergonomic to grab them?
I mean, I guess technically
you could put it on any way you want.
Okay, you could do this if you really wanted to.
- Ew! - But then you're only getting
75% of the RGB that you paid for.
Clearly this is the way.
- [David] How many buttons do you need when you stream?
- I don't know, but the Stream Deck XL has them.
If you're not familiar with the Stream Deck lineup,
every one of these is a screen,
so you can put your scene or images,
or if you have a soundboard or something,
each one of these can have a unique function.
We won't actually be using one of the key benefits
of the Wave 3 microphone from Elgato
because we're using a wireless headset,
but if you plug directly into it
you can actually control both volume
and mixing of volume and your own voice
directly on the microphone itself,
which is pretty cool.
It comes with a little mounting adapter
if you have an arm, but we're just gonna throw it on
the little standy-stand here.
And then that leaves only,
ah, one of their big, new products,
which is the Elgato ring light.
It's WiFi-enabled, which means you can control it
with an app on your phone or...
I'd never do that.
I usually just use the app on my computer,
but then I guess if you're in-game...
Yeah, that makes sense. You might actually use your phone.
Okay, I get it now.
Usually I'm streaming "WAN Show,"
so I don't use it for that.
And then, as a ring light, of course,
one of the key benefits is that you get
nice, even illumination around your face.
Got a little camera mount right in the middle there
so you can mount your camera right in the middle.
We can adjust the color temperature and the brightness,
but in software,
so we're gonna go ahead and the app installed
when we boot up the system.
Let's see if this thing actually fires up here.
Whoop. Hit that switch.
Now that everything is functionally working,
I'm adding some RGB accents.
We've got our fans lit up, so that looks pretty sweet.
Oh yeah.
Now we'll find out,
David and I were talking about this off-camera,
how the RGB's gonna look through the front grill.
I would say not bad.
We're gonna have to get a B-roll shot of it or something
not in bright light, 'cause it looks way cooler
when it's not under studio lighting.
There are a couple configuration things
that are a little weird right now.
I couldn't this ring light
to sync wirelessly for whatever reason.
My ones at home are, like,
(snaps) just work instantly,
so I'm sure what the deal is with that.
And then this is a funny one:
the backlight definitely works on this,
but when I load the profile for the H100i RGB,
it's not backlit.
It's like it's in a power saving mode or something.
So it's working. See, check this out.
(fan blades buzz)
That's Extreme.
Then I go ahead and click Quiet. Give it a sec.
There it goes, ramping down.
(fan blades buzz)
Everything else seems to be working
pretty much normally though.
So all that's left now
is to actually fire up a game, I guess.
All right, I may not have chosen the most intense game,
but it's definitely in line with our RGB themes here,
all right, ladies and gentlemen?
Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing.
Aw! I missed out!
You've unironically played this game, right?
- [David] Oh yeah, I love "Peggle."
- Yeah, all right.
Hey, I realize for some of you
this might not live up to the expectations
you might have had for what we were gonna do
with this epic Corsair gaming rig,
but look, I don't judge.
Whatever people wanna stream, (smacks palm)
you go ahead and stream, and Corsair,
with their Elgato subsidiary in particular,
has got all the gear that you need to do it,
so you can check it all out
at the link in the video description.
Thanks again to Corsair for sponsoring this video
and thanks to you guys for checking it out.
If you enjoyed it, maybe check out...
Uh, what else?
Yeah, check out the rest of our all-whatever builds.
We've done like four of them now.